OCM for Public Health Series Conferences

Organizing Committee

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Dr. Raul Zamora-Ros is graduated in both Nutrition and Food Science and also obtained a master on Statistics and Epidemiology. He earned his PhD in Nutrition from the University of Barcelona in 2008. He did his PostDoc on Nutritional Epidemiology at the IDIBELL, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the University of Cambridge, before joining his current position as pricipal investigator at the Unit of Nutrition and Cancer (IDIBELL) since February 2016. He is interested in whether dietary factors, particularly polyphenols and polyphenol-rich foods, are causally associated with the development of chronic diseases. He has published over 80 peer-review articles and above 10 book chapters in his area.

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Community nutrition

Organizing Committee - Public Health 2018

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Ira Richards is a toxicologist, working as a professor in Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health and an Associate Professor in Department of Internal Medicine College of Medicine at University of South Florida. He worked as Board of Director, American Heart Association, Florida Affiliate. He has written a book "Principles and Practice of Toxicology in Public Health".

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Dr. Jacova is Associate Professor of Psychology at Pacific University, and Adjunct Faculty at the University of British Columbia Division of Neurology. She has internationally recognized research expertise in characterizing early clinical, cognitive and neuroimaging manifestations of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), Frontotemporal Dementia and Vascular Cognitive Impairment. She is one of the lead authors on the novel diagnostic framework for AD proposed by the International Working Group (known as the IWG or Dubois criteria). She has contributed conceptually to defining the diagnostic entities of prodromal and preclinical AD. Dr. Jacova has also contributed to designing and implementing randomized controlled trials of pharmacological and behavioral interventions in older adults with and without cognitive impairment. She has authored or co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles, and several book chapters/books on topics of cognition, aging, and dementia.

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Director Professor & Head Department of Community Medicine, & Sub-Dean MAM College. Delhi She has been in the field of Community Medicine since the last 36 years. She has professional and research experience with National and International Organizations viz. WHO, UNFPA, Population Council and Rockfeller Foundation. She is Member Global Advisory Group of WHO. She is an advisor to CBM for National & International initiatives on disability. She has been on Board of MCI for curriculum Reforms and advisor to Diplomat of National Board of Examination. She has been involved in capacity building and research related to Geriatrics for over a decade. She has been contributed to development of WHO modules on Strategy development in Ear and Hearing Care .She has published and presented over 200 papers International and National peer reviewed journals and conferences. She was conferred fellowship of the Indian Public Health Association and Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine. She has been awarded a WHO Biennium Fellowship in 1992-93 and Fellowship by Overseas Development Agency in 1996, and CBM Fellowship in 2011. She has been conferred with the State Doctor’s Award for her meritorious services and also awarded State AIDS Award for contribution in the field of HIV/AIDS.

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Community Medicine, Public Health

Organizing Committee - Public Health 2017

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Dr. Carolyn C. Johnson, PhD, FAAHB, NCC, LPA, FAAHB, is the endowed Usdin Family Professor in the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She is currently the Director of the Tulane Prevention Research Center, Director of the Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health, and Chief of the Section of Maternal and Child Health within her department. Dr. Johnson earned an MS in Clinical Psychology from San Diego State and a PhD in Applied Biopsychology from the University of New Orleans. She has been in a faculty position at Tulane for 25 years. The main focus of her research is health education and health promotion for behaviors that are preventive against the development of chronic disease, specifically physical activity, nutrition, and smoking. She has been funded as PI and Co-PI by both federal and state agencies on multiple single and multisite studies. Dr. Johnson chairs the social and behavioral sciences extramural research program for the Division of Transplantation at the Health Resources and Services Administration, and formerly chaired grant review panels for the U. S. Army prostate and breast cancer programs. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Health Behavior, a nationally certified counselor and a Louisiana Professional Counselor.

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Sarah S. Knox, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health & WVU Cancer Institute, West Virginia University, received her PhD and MS degrees from Stockholm University (S.U.), Sweden; and began her career as a Principal Investigator at S.U. and the Karolinska Institute. She subsequently focused on cardiovascular research at the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. before assuming a leadership position to guide the implementation of the National Children’s Study. Her current research interests focus on a systems biology approach to carcinogenesis, integrating gene x environment interactions and biophysical signaling in cancer. She does graduate teaching in epidemiology and cancer cell biology.
Dr. Knox has published widely and been the recipient of multiple honors and awards. In addition to being on the editorial board of multiple journals, she reviews for a broad range of other medical and scientific journals.

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Dr. Robert John has completed his Bachelor of Arts in History, Sociology, Political Science from Vanderbilt University, M.A.T. in History from University of Florida and Phd in
Sociology from University of Kansas. He has worked as Biedenharn Endowed Chair in Gerontology in University of Louisiana at Monroe (1998-2000). Currently he is a Proffesor at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Health Promotion Sciences. He has published in several peer-reviewed Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Social Marketing Quarterly, American journal of health promotion: AJHP, Journal of Applied Gerontology.

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Dr. Abdelghani completed his master and doctorate at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He then joined Tulane/ department of Global Environmental Health Sciences as a faculty member and he served as the department chair from 1999-2005 and director of Tulane university school of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Laboratories for 22 years.
He has implemented and /or participated in many projects addressing environmental health problems in the United States and other countries. He was closely involved in the after math of Hurricane Katrina (2005) as well as the recent Gulf of Mexico oil Spill. One of the courses Dr. Abdelghani teaches is on Environmental Sampling and Monitoring following Disasters

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Dr. Abdelghani’s current teaching, research and field work focus on global Environmental Health issues with interest in developing countries. These issues include , water quality and quantity, clean air, food safety, management of municipal and hazardous waste, exposure to toxic and hazardous substances with emphasis on the impact on aquatic organisms , control of vectors of health importance, and solid and liquid waste disposal.

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Prof. John-Jules Ch. Meyer studied Mathematics with Computer Science and Digital Signal Processing at Leyden University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam on a subject in theoretical computer science. Since 1993 he has been a full professor of computer science, and artificial intelligence in particular, at Utrecht University. At the moment he is heading the Artificial Intelligence Division within the Department of Information and Computing Sciences and is program leader of the AI Master of the UU. Currently he is also the CSO of the Alan Turing Institute Almere, which specializes in multidisciplinary research for the health sciences, and the CEO of Companion Diagnostics ltd. as a part of Emotional Brain ltd. He has over 500 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and conference proceedings. In 2005 he was appointed as a Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.

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Dr. Lu Qi has been Graduated from Tuft Univerisyt as PhD. Later on he obtained his post-graduation from Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and becaue Assistant Professor and Associate Professor. He is now Regents Distinguished Chiar and Professor at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Qi is a fellow of American Heart Association (FAHA), American College of Nutrition (FACN), and The Obesity Society (FOS).

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Dr. Elida Mataj obtained her PhD degree in Public Health in 2012 and has been working as a Chief of Environmental Epidemiology Sector at the Department of Health and Environment, in Public Health Institute Tirana, Albania. Dr. Mataj is also a Lecturer of Statistics and Epidemiology at the ALBANI Medical University. Her primary areas of expertise are Environmental health and statistics.

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Dr. Pranab K Sen has completed his B.Sc. (1955), M.Sc. (1957) and Ph.D. (1962) from Calcutta University. Presently he is an Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at School of Public Health, The university of North Carolina, USA. He has worked at Calcutta University (1961-64) and University of California, Berkeley (1964-65) at different faculty positions. He has published in several peer-reviewed journals of Biostatistics, including Annals of Applied Probability, Demography, Journal of Applied Statistical Sciences, Sankhya, Annals of Statistics.

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Dr. Asha Seth Kapadia currently serves as Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics at School of
Public Health, The University of Texas, Health Science Center, Houston, Texas. She is also a Professor of Biometry/Biostatistics and Management. She is a Visiting Professor at Delhi University and University of Hyderabad, India. She graduated with BA and the MA in Mathematical Statistics from Delhi University in 1957 and 1959, respectively. She obtained a Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard University in 1969. She also worked as Professor of Preventive Dentistry at University of Texas Health Center during 1999-2005. She worked as an Associate professor of Biometry at School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, 1982-1984.

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Dr. Abdul Qayyum Rana is a Canadian neurologist who specializes in Parkinson’s disease and Movement Disorders. Dr. Rana is currently the Director of Parkinson’s Clinic of Eastern Toronto and Movement Disorders Centre in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Rana is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Parkinsonism and Restless Legs Syndrome. Dr. Rana is founder of the World Parkinson’s Program. He has written several books and published extensively in the field of Neurology, Parkinson’s disease and Movement disorders. Dr. Rana has been an invited speaker on Parkinson’s disease and has conducted seminars on Parkinson’s disease at international levels. Dr. Rana has been honoured with the Wayne Hening Award for his research on association on Parkinson’s disease and RLS. He has also served as examiner for the medical council of Canada. Beside his BSc, MD, and FRCPC from the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, Dr. Rana has also been awarded an honorary FRCP of the Royal College of Physicians of UK.

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Dr. Jia-Sheng Wang currently serves as University of Georgia (UGA) Athletic Association Endowed Professor in Public Health, Professor in Toxicology and Food Safety, and the Head of the Department of Environmental Health Science, College of Public Health, UGA. He is also a Chang Jiang Lecture Professor in Jiangnan University School of Food Science and Technology, China. He graduated with undergraduate diploma MB) and the Master of Medicine Degree from Shanghai First Medical College in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He worked as acting division leader and assistant dean for research in Nanjing Railway Medical College in 1982-1985.. Dr. Wang was the Georgia Distinguished Cancer Research Scholar in 2009-2015. He is an international recognized leader in food safety and food toxicology with focus on foodborne toxicants.

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His research interests include development of molecular biomarkers for foodborne carcinogens, cancer chemoprevention with functional food components, and molecular epidemiology and toxicology.

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Dr. Yu obtained her PhD degree in statistics in 2006 and have been working as an assistant and then associate professor in the Biostatistics program of the School of Public Health at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) ever since. Dr. Yu has been a PI for two NAACCR research awards, and co-investigator for the Louisiana Tumor Registry, NIH-funded Health Aging project, and Neighborhood Environment and Alcohol Health Disparities Studies project, as well as the LSU Principal Investigator for the Evaluation of Louisiana’s Fish Mercury Monitoring Program.

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Dr. Echu Liu graduated from University of Southern California, USA, as Doctor of Philosophy in 2006, with the specialties including Health Economics and Applied Econometrics. Presently he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at Saint Louis University, USA. He has published in several peer-reviewed journals of economics or health services administration, including Applied Economics, Demography, International Journal of Applied Economics, International Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health Reviews, Journal of Public Health, Journal of Health Care Finance, and JSM Health Education and Primary Health Care.

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Treatment Evaluation

Organizing Committee - Epidemiology 2017

Biography

Guy H Fontaine MD PhD HDR has made 15 original contributions in the design and the use of the first cardiac pace makers in the early 60s. He has serendipitously identified ARVD during antiarrhythmic surgery in the early 70s. He has developed the technique of Fulguration to replace surgery in the early 80s. He has been one of the 216 individuals who have made a significant contribution to the study of cardiovascular disease since the 14th century and one of the 500 greatest geniuses of the 21st Century (USA Books), one of the 100 life time of achievement (UK Book). He has > 900 publications including 201 book chapters. He is a reviewer of 17 scientific journals both in basic and clinical science. He has given 11 master lectures of 90 minutes each in inland China in 2014. He is now developing new techniques for brain protection in OHCA, stroke and spinal cord injury by hypothermia.

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Jean Caron, PhD, studies the mental health of populations, focusing primarily on:the epidemiology of mental disorders and suicide
the assessment of mental health services
the validation of psychometric instruments
His initial collaboration with the Douglas Mental Health University Institute was in 1993 when he was a professor in the Department of Human and Social Developmentat the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. He joined the Psychosocial Research Division in 1998 and subsequently became an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University. He currently leads the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Team in Social and Psychiatric Epidemiology. He is also an associate researcher at the Institut de Santé publique of the Université de Montréal and the Instituto de Saude Colletiva of the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil.His recent studies have identified determinants of psychological distress and quality of life among different populations: the general population, low-income populations and populations with mental health problems. He has focused particularly on social support as a protective factor in mental health.Jean Caron’s research has received national and international recognition. He was a visiting scientist at the Mental Health Institute of the Andalusian Ministry of Health and avisiting professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Seville, in Spain. He is a consultant in social and psychiatric epidemiology to the Public Health Agency of Canada, Statistics Canada, the Quebec Department of Public Health, and the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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David J Galton is Emeritus Professor at London University. He gained doctorates in Medicine (M.D. for work done in the USA) and in Science (D.Sc.). He has published 8 books, and more than 250 research papers on genetics of common metabolic disorders; nine students from his laboratory have become Professors. He served as consultant physician to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and Moorfield’s Eye Hospital, London. David J Galton has served in various senior positions as the former Chairman of Clinical Science U.K, Chairman of HEART UK and Secretary to the European Atherosclerosis Society. He is an elected Fellow of 2 Royal Colleges, the Physicians (FRCP) and Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth).

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Young graduated from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as Master and Doctor of Public Health, with specialization in Epidemiology and Social Medicine. He also took a Master’s degree in Sociology from Pennsylvania State University where he studied demography, biostatistics and quantitative research methods as a doctoral candidate. His research focuses on the distribution of air toxic exposure, neighborhood health effects, and vulnerability to chronic disease and health care disparities. He holds positions as Executive Vice President for Health Policy at Cooper University Health Care and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, where he is Director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Social Medicine.

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Wolfgang Seger was a doctor of medicine at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1977 and received his license as a physician in 1978. Afterwards, he was initially a research assistant at the Institute of Clinical Radiology at Hanover Medical University. After working at various clinics, he opened his main practice in internal medicine / gastroenterology in Bad Pyrmont in 1985 and was a consultant for the operative therapy of two clinics. From 1989 to 1991, Seger was a senior physician at the Lorch Social Medicine Clinic, and until 1994 he was the senior physician of the Social Medicine Department of the LVA Oldenburg-Bremen. In 1994 Seger became a senior physician of the medical service of the health insurance of Lower Saxony (MDKN) and in 1997 his deputy managing director. In 1998 the University of Bremen was appointed honorary professor for rehabilitation medicine.

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Sophia Salenius is Managing Director of RegPoint Ltd, a health services company supplying wireless technology to the global healthcare community. She is a leading expert in the international IT healthcare field and a sought after guest speaker at professional conferences around the world. Ms. Salenius is well known as the inventor behind the unique mHealth solution for public health threat detection and management called RegPoint. Her invention is also used in a wireless early warning and advice solution for natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes, as well as to combat public health threats including chronic diseases and epidemics such as SARS and the Avian A flu.

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In 2001 Cristina Stasi graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Catholic University of “Sacro Cuore”, Rome. In 2006 she specialized in Gastroenterology at the University of Pisa. From 2006 to 2009 she took part in clinical research projects at the University Hospital “Careggi”, Florence. At the same time she improved her knowledge in Study Design, Management of Clinical Research Project, Statistics, Epidemiology. In 2013 she received her PhD in Experimental and Clinical Medicine from the University of Florence. She published more than 40 papers in reputed international journals and she has been serving as an editorial board member of some international journals.

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Ahmad M. Khalil received Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1987. Currently is a Professor at Yarmouk University, Irbid, JORDAN. Earned the professorship in 2000. Director of the Department of Biological Sciences at Yarmouk 2001-2003. Founded the Biotechnology M. Sc. Program at Yarmouk in 2003. In Arabic, authored a book in Radiation Biology, a unit in Molecular Biology, a chapter in Genetics and 35 articles of general interest. Published 40 research papers most of them in International Journals. Developed expertise in investigating the biology of prostate cancer in collaboration with King Abduallah Hospital at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST).

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Dr. Roberto Antonio Flores has been Graduated from National University of Tucuman, Argentina as Medical Doctor, with the specialties including Internal Medicine, Social and Community Medicine and Diploma in Cardiology from the National University of Tucuman and Medical Clinic National Academy of Medicine Argentina. Later on he obtained his post-graduation from National University of Cuyo with subjects Pharmacology & Biology and then started working at The Nurses School, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Health, National University of Santiago del Estero, Argentina where he has continued his research. Presently he has been working at the at the Regional Hospital Dr. Ramon Carrillo, Santiago del Estero City. He has got eminent memberships in many Scientific Societies including Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the Society of Santiago del Estero, Argentina, Membership of Argentina Federation of Cardiology, Membership of Hypertension Committee of Argentina Federation of Cardiology, Membership of Inter American Society of Cardiology and Board of Epidemiology of Inter American Society of Cardiology

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Amir Baigi has 28 years experiences in health surveys, evaluation and expertise in improving the health and wellbeing.His scientific network extend from Gothenburg University in west to Lund University in south of Sweden.

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Syamantak Mani Tripathi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Chhattisharh Kamdhenu Vishwavidalya, Durg-491001 (Chhattisgarh) India. He has over six years experience with hand-on applications including teams of researchers and technicians in the Pharmacology & Toxicology and Biotechnology division. His training and experience also includes applied animal investigation skills as a research scholar in the field of pesticide induced immunotoxicology and safety pharmacology studies. He has worked in multiple successful research projects funded by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, supporting clinical development and leading to strong regulatory submissions for pesticides uses in agriculture. His research program is focused on the study of immune response to pesticide and xenobiotics in avian model. He received his Bachelor’s in Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry from Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur (MP), India; Master’s of Veterinary Pharmacology from Anand Agricultural University, Anand (Gujarat), India and his Ph.D. in Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology from the Nanaji Deshmukh Veterinary Science University at Jabalpur (MP), India. His academic work was focused on “Immuno-genotoxicity of organophosphorous insecticide ‘acephate’ in white leghorn birds”. His work contributes towards understanding the molecular mechanism of acephate toxicity in avian model; studying interleukin gene(s) associated with immunity and development of test series to study immunotoxicity. Memberships he has include the Indian Society of Toxicology, Indian Society of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology.

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Epidemiology,Toxicology

Organizing Committee - Healthcare Summit 2017

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Dr. Kewei Sha is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University of Houston, Clear Lake (UHCL). He is also the Associate Director of Cyber Security Institute at UHCL. Before he moved to UHCL, he was the Department Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Software Engineering at Oklahoma City University. He received Ph.D in Computer Science from Wayne State University in 2008. His research interests include Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, Mobile Computing, and Network Security and Privacy. Dr. Sha has served as the secretary of Technical Committee on the Internet of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS TCI), a guest Editor at Wireless Personal Communications, International Journal on Security and Networks and EAI Transactions on Wireless Spectrum, a conference technical program committee chair for ICCCN 2015, a workshop general chair for ICCCN 2013, a workshop founder and chair of MobiPST and MedSPT, a session chair in ICCCN and CollaborateCom, a member of editorial board in several journals, and a program committee member in numerous conferences. He is also a reviewer for numerous journals including IEEE TPDS, IEEE TC, ACM TAAS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TITS, Elsevier JPDC and so on. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.

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Josep M Picas, MD of University of Barcelona has done his Diploma from ESADE Business School of Barcelona. He is the President of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers. He has been Director of the Primary Care of Barcelona City and CIO at the Hospital de St. Pau. Now he is promoting Adaptive HS.

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Graduated Toho University Medical School at Tokyo in Japan on March 31th 1978
Passed the Japanese National Board Medical Examination on May 1978
Worked research fellow in Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston under Dr.Appel inUSA between October 1984 and October 1986
Assistant professor of Neurology, Toho University Ohashi Hospital from April 1991 and associate professor of Neurology, Toho University Ohashi Hospital on April 1997 and became Professor and Chairman in Department of Neurology Toho University Omori Hospital from April 2005 and present time.

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Wanyang Dai is a distinguished professor of Nanjing University in China, Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Information Engineering, Journal of Advances in Applied Mathematics. He received his Ph.D degree in applied mathematics jointly with industrial engineering and systems engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A., in 1996. He was an MTS (permanent) in End-to-End Network Architecture Department of AT&T Bell Labs (now called Nokia Bell Labs), U.S.A., from 1996-1999, where he was a principal investigator of several lightning projects with some (nowadays called cloud computing) project won "Technology Transfer". His "influential" papers are published in "big name" journals including Operations Research.

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Highly motivated professor and consultant dermatologist with more than 27 years of good experience in many dermatological diseases and their management. Special interest in laser therapy, phototherapy, dematopathology, cosmetic dermatology and study of genetic diseases. Has many publications in various international medical journals

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Jyh-Horng Chou received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Science from National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1981 and 1983, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechatronic Engineering from National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1988. He is currently the Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering Department, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan. His research and teaching interests include intelligent systems and control, computational intelligence and methods, automation technology, robust control, and robust optimization. He was the recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Research Award from the National Science Council of Taiwan, the 2012 IEEE Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Tainan Section, the 2014 Distinguished Research Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, the Research Award and the Excellent Research Award from the National Science Council of Taiwan 12 times, and numerous academic awards/honors from various Societies. Based on the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS) evaluation, his "Industrial Application Success Story" has got the 2014 winner of highest rank, thus being selected to become the first internationally industrial success story being reported on the IEEE CIS website. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Chinese Automatic Control Society (CACS), the Chinese Institute of Automation Engineer (CIAE), and the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME).

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Mu-Chun Su received the B. S. degree in electronics engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1986, and the M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Maryland, College Park, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He was the IEEE Franklin V. Taylor Award recipient for the most outstanding paper co-authored with Dr. N. DeClaris and presented to the 1991 IEEE SMC Conference. He has authored more than 100 journal and refereed conference papers. He is currently a professor of computer science and information engineering at National Central University, Taiwan. He is an IET fellow and a senior member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. His current research interests include computational intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy systems, swarm intelligence, affective computing, human-computer interaction, robotics, pattern recognition, biomedicall signal processing, rehabilitation technology, e-learning, and image processing.

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Dr. Arcady Putilov received his PhDs (candidate and doctor of science) from the Institute of Physiology (Novosibirsk) and the Siberian Medical University (Tomsk), He’s a research group leader at the Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics (Novosibirsk). He’s experienced in study of rhythmic processes in physiology, biochemistry, zoology, ecology, psychology, psychiatry, and history. His other research interests include sleep regulation, personality, individual differences, evolutionary psychology, and history. He authored several hundred scientific publications including books and articles in peer reviewed international journals. He also writes for the general public about sleep, biological rhythms, mood disorders, psychology, and history of science.

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Organizing Committee - Public Health 2016

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Prof. Marcos got her PhD at the School of Pharmacy at the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain (UCM) in 1982 and Master in Clinical Analysis by UCM in 1986 and got a grant at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and she was the Head of the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology at the Mixed Center CSIC-UCM (1998-2002). She is the leader of the Immunonutrition Research Group at the Department of Metabolism and Nutrition at CSIC since 1987. She has achieved the highest category at CSIC as a Research Professor in 2006 and her scientific consolidation has been recognized for 5 six-year terms since 1985. She is a pioneer in the field of Immunonutrition in Spain, Founder and President of the International Forum of Immunonutrition for Education and Research (i-FINER) since 2007. She has been participating in 83 research projects (66 as a leader) and 473 publications.
Since 1999 Prof. Marcos has been coordinating several multi-centre Spanish projects related to adolescent nutrition, eating disorders and obesity, funded by the Foundation for Health Research (FIS), Institute of Health Carlos III, Ministry of Health and Consumption as well as the Ministry of Education and Science or the Ministry of Science and Innovation.

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Edite Teixeira de Lemos received her PhD. in Bio-medical Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra; Portugal in 2008. At present she is a senior Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu and the director of post graduated course of Nutrition and Food Quality. More recently, she was elected chair of the Scientific Council of ESAV, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu. She also integrates the CI&DETS Research Center of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu. She has co-authored over 60 papers, including review articles and textbook chapters. She is also a Reviewer/Co-reviewer of scientific papers in several international journals.

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Maira Bes Rastrollo born on August 12, 1978 in Gerona, Spain. Currently she is an Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Navarra, Spain and also serves as Deputy Chair of Dept. Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the same university. She completed her PhD. in Pharmacy at the University of Navarra in 2005 and was a research associate at Harvard School of Public Health, Dept. of Nutrition in 2006-2007. She also served as visiting scholar at Loma Linda University (California), Dept. of Nutrition in 2009, a member of the EASO Preventive and Public Health Task Force, a member of the editorial board of alternatives therapies in health and medicine and Tobacco Use Insights. She is an author of more than 112 papers in peer reviewed journals and several chapters in preventive medicine and nutrition textbooks and principal investigator of 8 projects funded by the Spanish National and Regional Funding Agency, and nutrition foundations. Maira holds a position of researcher leader in the SUN project (a Spanish prospective cohort with more than 22,300 participants) and researcher of the multicentre randomized intervention PREDIMED and PREDIMED-PLUS Studies and the Spanish working group on obesity and nutrition (CIBERobn). Apart from all these, she is a European expert for the FP7 call (contract CT-EX2006C134477-102) and Group leader for the area of Nutrition and Lifestyles in the group of Epidemiology and Public Health of the IDISNA (Navarra Institute for Health Research).

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Healthy lifestyles as potential protective factors for chronic diseases and conditions such as type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, and obesity.

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Rosa María García-Gimeno is currently working as an Professor in the field of Food Hygiene. Her research activities includes Safety Assessment of Foods, predictive food microbiology, Food Safety,
Food Microbiology. She is a Member of Research group in Food Safety.

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Dolores Corella, is a PhD in Pharmacy, Bachelor of Science and Food Technology and Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Food Science, Toxicology and Legal Medicine, University of Valencia. In the last ten years she has focused her research on the methodological development of so-called gene-environment interactions on various intermediate phenotypes and late cardiovascular diseases and obesity. In the study of interactions has specialized in studies on gene-diet interactions in different populations both Spanish and from other countries from different continents. She also participated in the PREDIMED (prevention with Mediterranean diet) study, working in recruitment and monitoring of patients at high cardiovascular risk as well as conducting genetic analysis and nutrigenomics studies of this cohort. She has directed more than 10 research projects of the National Plan and the Generalist Valencia and has collaborated in the development of more than 150 international publications in the field of cardiovascular diseases and obesity. Besides her research group has also participated in Red INBIOMED technology and is working with the COMBIOMED network.

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Vania Aparecida Leandro-Merhi is a Professor Doctor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas-SP-Brazil in the area of clinical nutrition (School of Nutrition). Member of the tenured staff of the graduate program in health sciences. She is a Scientific editor of the Brazilian Journal of Nutrition and ad-hoc referee of many scientific journals. She develops research projects in the general area of clinical nutrition and with hospitalized adult and older adult patients and cancer patients. Her publication history includes studies on the nutritional status of hospitalized patients and clinical outcomes. She received her PhD in Medical Sciences (UNICAMP) and master’s degree in Sciences Applied in Pediatrics (UNIFESP).

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Area of clinical nutrition and nutritional assessment of hospitalized patients.

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Dirce Maria Lobo Marchioni persued degree in Nutrition from the University of São Paulo ( 1985) , Master of Public Health from the University of São Paulo ( 1999) , PhD in Public Health from the University of São Paulo ( 2005) , Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (2008 ) , Imperial College London (2013 ) and free teaching in Public Health from the University of São Paulo ( 2011) . She is currently Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo and has experience in the area of Nutrition, with emphasis on Food Consumption , acting on the following topics: food consumption , diet, dietary recommendations , food intake and case control.

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Rafael Jordano Salinas is a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Food Protection ( IAMFES , USA ) from 1999-2010 . He is an Expert participant in the review of the document FAO / WHO guidance to governments on the application of HACCP in small food businesses and / or less developed (FAO , Rome) in 2007 . His research work includes Implementation of alternative methods for the microbiological analysis of food : Petrify impedance ; PCR and Vida’s system and Improving the process of maturation of dried sausage : evaluation of starter cultures.

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Jara Pérez-Jiménez holds a PhD in Food Science and Technology from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2007), after developing her PhD studies at the Department of Metabolism and Nutrition of the Institute of Food Science, Technology and Nutrition (ICTAN-CSIC), in Madrid. She later developed her activities at the Department of Nutrition of the Complutense University of Madrid; the Unit of Human Nutrition, INRA (Institute National de la Recherché Agronomique) in France; the Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia, IQAC-CSIC, in Barcelona; and she rejoined ICTAN-CSIC in 2012. Her research activity has focused on the study of different food bioactive compounds, especially polyphenols, through a multidisciplinary approach-analysis of content in foods, studies in animal models, clinical trials, observational studies and new on-line tools(www.phenol-explorer.eu). Overall, this has given place to 46papers published in international scientific journals(> 1,600 citations, h-index 21), as well as to more than 50works presented in scientific meetings and invited conferences in different universities (University of Glasgow, Complutense University of Madrid, Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, etc.). She is a member of the Editorial Board of Food Research International, where she recently coedited a special issue, as well as Academic Editor of PeerJ. Finally, she was selected as one of the 100 researchers aged less than 35 years attending to Cantabria Campus Nobel(2012), a meeting between young researchers and Nobel prizes, as well as one of the 10 European Researchers attending to the 3rdedition of European Nutrition Leadership Platform-Advanced Seminar (2014), organized by European universities and food companies

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Androniki Naska is a graduate of the School of Sciences of the University of Athens (BSc in Chemistry); the School of Health and Life Sciences, King’s College, University of London (MSc in Human Nutrition); and the University of Athens Medical School (PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology, with distinction). Currently, A. Naska is Associate Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the University of Athens Medical School. A. Naska has been core investigator in eleven and senior member of the coordinating team in thirteen EU-supported research projects on nutrition monitoring; eating out; the development and testing of dietary assessment methods; the collection and analysis of dietary and related data. A. Naska is also involved in the analysis of data collected through the EPIC study (prospective cohort study). A. Naska has published 122 original research papers and reviews, and 6 chapters in nutrition-related books (2,692 citations and h-index = 29).

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